Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Collection #1 is a set of email addresses and passwords totalling 2,692,818,238 rows. In total, there are 1,160,253,228 unique combinations of email addresses and passwords. This is when treating the password as case sensitive but the email address as not case sensitive. There are 21,222,975 unique passwords. It'll be 99.x%

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In 2016, I bought a new smartphone that, as part of a promotion, came with an additional smart watch.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Next, the site directs you to a tailored password page, using the information you just entered. For example, entering a Gmail address leads to a page asking for the Gmail password. Use a password manager.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. Web hosting giant DigitalOcean discloses it was one of the victims, and that the intruders used their access to send password reset emails to a number of DigitalOcean customers involved in cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. In 2016, while the U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This is exactly what happened on October 12, 2016, when the Mirai botnet used an army of IoT devices — like security cameras, digital video recorders (DVRs) and routers — to execute a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack which left much of the internet inaccessible. Learn about Password Optimization. Think again.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

For users familiar with password management and the value of complex passwords, this makes sense. By 1999, its successor – the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol – offered a more robust cryptographic protocol across technical components like cipher suites, record protocol, message authentication , and handshake process.

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Encryption Computers and Electronics Password Management Passwords 138

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

RDP intrusions are typically the result of two attacker methods: brute force authentication attempts or a meddler-in-the-middle (MITM) attack. Remote desktop software’s sensitive influence over other devices means identity and access management (IAM), password security , and multi-factor authentication are critical for risk management.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 24, 2020

These include phishing, password spraying and credential stuffing.". The larger schemes tend to include nation-state involvement: "The most high profile attacks were conducted by Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) against the World Anti-Doping Agency, in August 2016. MFA buys a lot of additional security for relatively little effort.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 25, 2018

My relationship with 1Password stretches all the way back to 2011 when I came to the realisation that the only secure password is the one you can't remember. And if you're not already putting all your passwords in 1Password, go and grab a free trial and give it a go.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Normally account take overs are due to insecure passwords or recovery options, this is definitely something different. The FaceTime bug definitely proves that your phone can be used as a remote listening device "without any authentication" — Marcus J. — Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green) February 17, 2016.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

China-linked cyber espionage group APT20 has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in recent attacks, cyber-security firm Fox-IT warns. The attacks aimed at government entities and managed service providers (MSPs) that were active in many industries, including aviation, healthcare, finance, insurance, energy, and gambling.

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Security Affairs

JULY 31, 2020

The motion picture acquisition agreements, tax ID requests, and contract addendum scans all date between 2013 and 2016. Storing anything on a publicly accessible server without any kind of authentication process in place is dangerous, which is a lesson many organizations still tend to learn the hard way.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

There was KeRanger ransomware in 2016. Macs running the M1 chip now support the same degree of robust security Apple consumers expect from their iOS devices, which means features like Kernel Integrity Protection, Fast Permission Restrictions (which help mitigate web-based or runtime attacks), and Pointer Authentication Codes.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

Because their certificate was issued before June 2016 (it was issued on the 31st of March, 2016), Google will begin distrusting it in Chrome this March (although I note the present release date for v66 which will implement this is scheduled for April 17 ). Let them paste passwords! Again, see comments above re why this is odd.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I did attend a SANS Course as a volunteer facilitator for MGT414: “SANS Training Program for CISSP Certification” at the Rocky Mountain SANS 2016 cybersecurity conference. I also discovered several security vulnerabilities in LastPass Password Manager. I used (ISC) 2 CBK, SANS training, and lots of books.

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